14-Nov, 2024 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Not My Problem | NOEMA when you ask the AI, to riff on what the AI means for art, you’re going to get some interesting responses.

November 14, 2024 · steve ulrich

TIL: ollama notes

TIL - that docker for mac doesn’t allow you to access the GPUs that you have on your mac running apple Si. this is annoying, it means that i need to run ollama with some wrappers, which isn’t the end of the world, but a bit more hassle than i was looking for. misc. notes in no particular order default ollama port 11434 making it such that i can connect to this from off localhost (i....

November 1, 2024 · steve ulrich

the most dangerous writing prompt app

somehow i got pointed at this thing and, like a fool, i couldn’t look away … prompt: He was successful, attractive and charming but he’d learnt that people of that age always had secrets. … and go! … this was most certainly the case for chaz. chaz was brought up in the boomer generation and while he’d been fortunate enough to accumulate a small amount of personal wealth, there were clearly some “unaccounted for” expenditures....

September 18, 2024 · steve ulrich

12-Sep, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.

links, etc RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations i struggle with the IETF on a number of fronts, but this was a surprisingly compelling read. technology has become a far more powerful tool for suppression and surveillance than we thought it would be in the mid-late 1990s when we were super pumped about the democratization of information access. protocol analysis for information leakage is something that’s been de rigueur from a security perspective for some time, but even that’s proven to be insufficient....

September 12, 2024 · steve ulrich

04-Sep, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.

links, etc ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine just in case you forgot you were owned… 3D printing for chemistry could be the most economically disruptive thing we see in our lifetimes. tags: health, medicine Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications there are some interesting things they’ve baked into the ASIC here. tags: ai, tesla, hotchips, neteng, protocols...

September 4, 2024 · steve ulrich